Can Colloidal (Nano) Gold Destroy Certian Types Of Viruses?

"Gold nanoparticles may be useful as a promising strategy for treating and controlling the infection of MeV and other related enveloped viruses."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950311/

"Delivery of antiviral small interfering RNA with gold nanoparticles inhibits dengue virus infection in vitro"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24828333/

"gold nanoparticles for just this purpose, and their findings could lead to a broad-spectrum treatment. Once injected in the body, these nanoparticles imitate human cells and “trick” the viruses. When the viruses bind to them – in order to infect them – the nanoparticles use pressure produced locally by this link-up to “break” the viruses, rendering them innocuous. The results of this research have just been published in Nature Materials."
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/using-gold-nanoparticles-to-destroy-viruses/

"Metal Nanoparticles: a Promising Treatment for Viral and Arboviral Infections"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-020-02414-2

"On a per particle basis, larger sized gold nanoparticles were surprisingly shown to inhibit the viral infection up to two orders of magnitude more efficiently than smaller particles, which suggests different mechanisms of virus inhibition. Based on complementary electron microscopic data, we noticed that larger gold nanoparticles act as efficient cross-linkers between virions, whereas smaller gold nanoparticles decorate the surface of individual virus particles"
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/NR/2014/C3NR04449A#!divAbstract

" ~7 nm gold nanoparticle efficiently inhibited Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infections and relatively nontoxic to normal cells
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Gold nanoparticles interfered with virus attachment and proliferations in Vero cells in a dose and time-dependent manner"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0928493117333647

Gold Nanoparticles Impair Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Replication
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7359112